Crypto automation that survives reality

I build and harden trading bots and crypto data pipelines with a reliability-first mindset: bounded retries, idempotent side effects, audit trails, and runbooks.

Guardrails

Stop duplicated orders, unsafe retries, and silent failures with clear policies and stop rules.

Observability

Telemetry that answers “what failed, how often, and what did we do about it?”

Runbooks

A checklist and decision path for bans, 429s, drift, signature errors, and flaky upstreams.

The problem (what breaks in the real world)

Crypto automation fails at the edges: rate limits, exchange bans, partial fills, timestamp drift, upstream outages, and retries that accidentally place duplicate orders.

  • 429s, timeouts, and ban waves that trigger retry storms
  • Signature/timestamp errors and clock drift
  • Duplicates and mismatched state (orders, positions, fills)

Outcomes

The goal is calm automation: predictable behavior under stress, and fast debugging when something upstream changes.

  • Bounded retries with stop rules (no infinite loops)
  • Idempotency for side effects (no accidental duplicates)
  • Telemetry + audit trail you can use during incidents

How it works

Policies
Retry vs stop vs escalate rules per failure mode.
State + idempotency
Order keys, dedupe, and safe reconciliation.
Telemetry
Minimal fields for traces, retries, and decisions.
Runbooks
What to check first during bans, drift, and outages.

If you want the hands-on path, start with services. If you want the reusable kit, join Axiom Ops.

Pricing (typical)

These ranges are here so you can self-qualify quickly. Exact scope depends on access (logs, staging, reproducibility) and how risky the automation is.

Reliability Audit
5–10 days
$2,500–$7,500
Hardening Sprint
2–3 weeks
$8,000–$25,000
Ops Partner
monthly
$2,000–$6,000 / month

Prefer DIY? Axiom Ops will include vertical packs for domains like trading bans and drift.